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paign in rural southern Virginia.
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Veteran police officer serving warrant among 3 killed in shootout near Texas A&M University

• COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- A routine serving of an eviction notice to a man living near the Texas A&M University campus turned deadly for Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann when the resident opened fire on him, leading to the death of the law enforcement officer and another man before the gunman was killed.
• The spasm of deadly violence Monday left a neighborhood shaken, a tight-knit law enforcement community in mourning and the family of 35-year-old gunman Thomas Alton Caffall anguished and "distraught by the havoc that he has caused."
• Just after noon, College Station police began fielding frantic 911 calls reporting

shots being fired. Officers responding saw the 41-year-old Bachmann down on the lawn and also were taking gunfire.
• For nearly 30 minutes police exchanged shots with Caffall, 35.
• By then, Bachmann, a police instructor, one-time Officer of the Year and a married father of two, had been mortally wounded. So was Chris Northcliff, 43, of College Station, who was outside and apparently caught up in the gunfire.
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Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown leaves a legacy of frank sexual talk and a message of fulfillment

• NEW YORK (AP) -- Before there was "Sex and the City," there was "Sex and the Single Girl." And before there was Carrie Bradshaw, there was Helen Gurley Brown.
• True, Carrie, the fun-loving and fashionable sex columnist of the HBO series, was fictional. But such was the influence of Brown, the long-serving Cosmopolitan editor (and "Sex and the Single Girl" author) who died Monday at age 90, that her admirers reached into pop culture as well as recent American history to describe her importance.
• "Carrie and her friends couldn't have lived the lives they did without Helen," said Bonnie Fuller, the celebrity editor who succeeded Brown at Cosmopolitan in 1997. "She was the first woman to say you could have it all -- and by that she meant a ca

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